I think Mark might be dreaming if he thinks even a single customer will cancel their subscription with Scribd to buy Smashwords
titles from other bookstores.
Not exact matches
Be aware that some stores may specialize in local books, while
others (often large commercial
bookstores) tend to carry the more well - known
titles from other countries, including books translated
from English.
Wade says that 60 % of her
titles disappeared
from Amazon and
other online
bookstores.
A recent snapshot of e-book prices found that
titles in the Kindle
bookstore from the five biggest publishers cost, on average, $ 10.81, while all
other 2015 e-books on the site had an average price of $ 4.95, according to industry researcher Codex Group LLC.
With more than 1 million
titles, including all the latest books
from top authors and publishers, the Clean Reader
bookstore offers the same books as any
other online retailer and with comparable pricing.
«You may know Bowker
from ordering your ISBN numbers, but they are also the provider for «Books In Print and Global Books In Print» that contain listings of bibliographical information for international book
titles available in the USA or any
other part of the world, in
bookstores and libraries.
But what really happens is that your book — along with thousands of
other titles from big - name publishing houses — will be listed in databases
from which
bookstores order their books.
But my local
bookstore, for instance, won't go near anything
other than a
title from a traditional publisher.
A standoff over financial terms has prompted the
bookstore chain Barnes & Noble to cut back substantially on the number of
titles it orders
from the publishing house Simon & Schuster, raising fears among
other publishers, agents and authors that the conflict may harm the publishing industry as a whole.
Other sources are recent like - type books (
titles on the same
bookstore shelf as your
title), in which the author thanks her or his literary agent and recommendations garnered
from published authors to their agents.
We have since spoken to
other indie booksellers across the country who are feeling the same way (backed up by articles in the Christian Science Monitor and Publisher's Weekly that note increasing interest
from indie
bookstores in self - published
titles).